While movie fans are currently buzzing over the silently scaryA Quiet Place, a new trailer for A24’s horror-hit-in-the-makingHereditaryjust dropped in all its blazing glory. The horror/drama earned its own buzzworthy status early this year when it premiered at Sundance, followed by an appearance just last month at SXSW. Now, it’s poised to be a breakout hit to start off the summer season, and as this new trailer confirms, it’s sure to bring plenty of chills and thrills.
Fans of the film have already drawn comparisons to horror icons likeThe ExorcistandFirestarter, though there are also hints of more contemporary twists on the genre likeThe BabadookandUnder the Shadow, and it’s plain to see that theStranger Thingseffect is still in full swing.Hereditarywill certainly be its own thing … a very,verycreepy thing. Thefirst atmospheric and adrenaline-pumping trailerintroduced the family drama at the center of the horror film that drives the action and ratchets up the tension, and I’m happy to say this new trailer keeps that spirit intact.
Writer-directorAri Aster’s feature horror debut starsToni Collette,Gabriel Byrne,Alex Wolff, andMilly Shapiro, and opens June 8th againstOcean’s 8.
Check out the creepified new trailer forHereditarybelow:
From Ari Aster and starring Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, and Milly Shapiro – Coming August 15, 2025.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director Ari Aster unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown that exhibits the craft and precision of a nascent auteur, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, and pushing the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.”
